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Well, I went into settings and switched my default search engine back to Google. Wonder what I'll have to "deal with" tomorrow. Oh right, nothing. Because it isn't a daily occurrence. Far from it. Some people routinely exaggerate small rare annoyances into a constant ongoing process, and I don't really understand it.
I just went and resetted it back to Chrome. Probably someone' house at Kabo at Microsoft depends on some OKR and metrics to show growth for Edge. Pathethic, short-sighted, but most probably true.
> I just went and resetted it back to Chrome. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? Any similar stories? First: it’s defined not on daily basis. It’s on install or every blue moon update. Secondly: I vastly prefer dealing with this occasional browser change then spending my whole week trying to discover: - why my screen is tearing - why my nvidia laptop is messed up - why I can’t plug my external display and have the correct dpi on each displ…
Tipping point, for using ms products in general, was malware posing as an Asus driver /s. Fresh windows 10 install. Installed a bunch of drivers fresh off the vendor's site. Asus driver installation installed some GUI i didn't much care for, Armoury Crate. Well, no problem, right? One can extract the cab/inf files and let windows add the driver rather than use the vendor's executable. Wrong. Trying to uninstall the d…
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> Which DE/FM will allow me to configure menus? E.g. “git push” item on a folder containing .git, “npm run myscript” on a folder containing package.json. Dolphin has "services" which allow you to get custom context menu items, though I've never written one so can't vouch for how much effort it is or isn't. It also has an embedded terminal for more adhoc commands. > Which DE has presets for window placement like Fancy…
Thanks for your comment, I’ve really lost tracks for recent years! As far as I understand, not using e.g. stock KDE WM means I’ll lose a big chunk of KDE functionality, or will I not? I’m afraid to go all in on custom WM-panel-tray-menu, because that easily meant weeks of configuration. This I find even coolish at home, but not at work. Maybe some popular-enough DE invented some sort of WM plugins aince then? I don’t…
You'll instantly get after moving:
- No bitrot (it is there but like 5% of what it is in Windows) - No licensing crap - Sane file system (that can actually handle node_modules) - Unix environment (better for developing)
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That could be removed and never come back, on the other hand i think canonical is going towards the path of Microsoft nonetheless
I fully expect Microsoft to eventually acquire Canonical, and if you pay attention to behind-the-scenes interactions between the two, it seems very likely.
I hate MS's stance on privacy like anyone else, but I have serious doubts about your post. This would be a very big thing if actually true. Most likely thing that happened was that you started Edge yourself, then clicked on the pop-up that sometimes shows up (regardless of updates installed) asking you to switch to "recommended settings" which replaces your default browser. Yes, shitty dark patterns, but definitely n…
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Oh interesting. I’d love to hear more about your setup. I’m on the same stack (Sway, Arch) and it’s absolutely rock solid on a precision 5520, and has been for 4 years now. I usually reinstall every year but I haven’t this time because everything kinda just works. To be clear; I’m not doubting you but it’s wildly different than my experience and I would love to understand how to avoid this instability myself, if for…
Well I have a thinkpad with a pretty stable setup (except suspend resume, i havent even bothered trying to get that to run well) but on my desktop system Ryzen 5600x AMD rx6600xt MSI B550M pro Zen Kernel with 3600mhz XMP Ram and auto overclock settings i get a hard crash once a month with some random MCE hardware errors, bluetooth card spams my dmesg on boot with some errors i cant be bothered to fix, firefox sometim…
I would check your warranty.
I just went and resetted it back to Chrome. Probably someone' house at Kabo at Microsoft depends on some OKR and metrics to show growth for Edge. Pathethic, short-sighted, but most probably true.
> I just went and resetted it back to Chrome. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Also, at least Chrome lets you set a custom encryption passphrase. Microsoft managed to import every other feature from Chrome, except this one, apparently.
Microsoft has somehow done the impossible and beat Google in its own game. Edge is a complete privacy nightmare, only rivaled by the likes of Opera and Yandex browsers. If Chrome is the fire, Edge is a nuclear reactor in meltdown.
[1]: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/microsoft-edge-datensendeverhalte... (English version: https://www-kuketz--blog-de.translate.goog/microsoft-edge-da...)